FAIZAN ALI WARRAICH

TLAHORE - Noted religious scholar and Ameer of the Tableeghi Jamaat Pakistan Haji Abdul Wahab passed away on Sunday morning after prolonged illness at the age of 96. He was laid to rest the same day in a Raiwind graveyard adjacent to Tableeghi Markaz (Headquarters) after Maghrib prayers. Late Haji ...

TLAHORE - Information Technology experts have said that hackers of various bank accounts can be traced following close coordination among the relevant agencies to save the people from this online fraud. Tech experts stressed the need to build a comprehensive cyber security policy to counter ...

TLAHORE - The Punjab government on Monday removed Dr Umar Saif, founding chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), and appointed Habib-ur-Rehman Gilani in his place. Saif served as head of the PITB for seven years. Before completion of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ...

TLAHORE - In a dedicated Startup Hall located on the 9th floor of Arfa Karim Software Tower, 15 teams consisting of five to 10 people each are striving to make a mark in finding out solutions to Pakistan’s contemporary issues through technology. These teams have been selected after convincing ...

TLAHORE - The official agency responsible for supplying quality drinking water to the people of Lahore claims that it is doing well what it is supposed to do. However, a survey conducted by The Nation in various areas of the metropolis shows no decrease in the use of bottled water in Lahore despite ...

TLAHORE - A volatile situation on the second day of protests by the Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah workers irked the citizens and restricted their movement within the city. Ghulam Hussain (42), a resident of Wahdat Road who runs his business in Abid Market, told The Nation that he could not find ...

TLAHORE - Twitterati in daylong tweets on Wednesday showed full backing to Prime Minister Imran Khan and the State institutions against the elements who are in favour of agitation after the Supreme Court’s Wednesday verdict. Immediately after Prime Minister Imran khan’s brief ...

TLAHORE - Leading lawyer and human rights defender, Asma Jahangir, has posthumously been awarded United Nations Human Rights Prize 2018 and has become the fourth Pakistani having won this prize. The Pakistanis who won this award in previous decades were Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan in 1978, former ...

TLAHORE - Around 331,000 passengers travelling by metro buses in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan everyday will have to pay more in terms of fares as the PTI government has decided to end subsidy being given to them to rationalise fares. This was announced by the provincial Finance Minister Makhdoom ...

TLAHORE - Lawmakers at a debate held yesterday to mark International Day of the Girl Child assured the girls of taking up the issue of increase in marriage age limit in the Punjab Assembly. Girls at the function held at Carlton Hotel on Empress Road urged parliamentarians to play their role in ...

TLAHORE - Syrian poet Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani’s a autobiography originally written in Arabic now has been translated in Urdu language by a translator Abu Amash. Qabbani was born in 21st March, 1923 in Damascus and breathed his last on 30th April, 1998. Qabbani was a Syrian diplomat and considered ...

TLAHORE - World Space Week 2018 is being marked in the metropolis with several activities. World Space Week is observed every year from October 4 to October 10. This year enthusiastic celebrations of WSW in Pakistan clear the air that space sciences and particularly astronomy have no ...

TSARGODHA-Mehreen Kanwal, from Dohri village of Sargodha district has been spearheading a cleanliness awareness campaign through the sale of hygiene products on subsidized rates among villagers.She has been earning Rs8000 per month as Sehat Aapa(name given to these ladies who spreads awareness on ...

TLAHORE - The grand operation against land grabbers entered third day Thursday. The anti-encroachment squad retrieved 25 kanals, including 15 kanals of Samsani graveyard. Backed by police, the district admin and LDA jointly launched the operation. Also, illegally-built houses, shops and charities ...

TLAHORE - Pakistan sentences one person a day to death, according to data compiled by a non-government organisation. Official number of prisoners on death row has dropped to 4,688 in 2018, from 7,164 in 2012, a significant drop compared to figures reported by the Ministry of Interior in ...

TLAHORE - On the first day of Punjab government’s anti-encroachment operation on Thursday, 80-kanal state owned land was retrieved from land grabbers in Johar Town and Anarkali markets. The operation is named ‘Clean and Green’ Pakistan. Clean is referred to retrieve the land from ...

TLAHORE - The Punjab government is all set to launch a grand operation to retrieve 31,687 kanals of encroached land worth billions of rupees in the metropolis on Tuesday (today). Two teams consisting of 80 men, 20 trucks and two tractor loaders will take part in the operation. Officials of the ...

TLAHORE - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led Punjab government is working on different options to retrieve land from land grabbers in the provincial capital. A high-level task force has been constituted on the directions of Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar and Provincial Minister for Housing Mian ...

TLAHORE - A lack of resources, manpower and non-compliance are the reasons obstructing the drive against encroachments in the city, says Lahore Lord Mayor Mubashir Javed. Talking to The Nation, he said, “Being mayor of largest city of Punjab I have an experience to fight against this mindset ...

TLAHORE - It would be an overnight change in Lahore, a city of 11.13 million people, if Supreme Court’s orders on ban on commercialisation in the metropolis are implemented. A two-member bench consisting of Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan on Sunday banned ...

TLAHORE - All the Twitter accounts of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s spouse Bushra Bibi are fake even they are followed by thousands of people. PTI Deputy Information Secretary Sarah Ahmed confirmed to The Nation that first lady is not holding any official Twitter or Facebook ...

TLAHORE - The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances was marked on Thursday. Tweeterati used the social networking with #EnforcedDisappearances and #DhunKarLao hashtags. According to the National Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances, there are 1,815 ...

TLAHORE - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led Punjab government has no twitter account to disseminate information to people about day-to-day affairs of the provincial government. The provincial government has not even access to previously verified twitter account @GovtOfPunjab, which has ...

TLAHORE - Hours after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan took oath as 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan, his verified twitter account was updated as ‘Prime Minister of Pakistan’ and Twitterati came out with thousands of tweets congratulating the Kaptaan. It was like a festival on ...

TLAHORE - Pakistanis on Twitter lambasted ‘Imran Khan is Pakistan’s Trump’ comment made by Trevor Noah, host of popular American comedy show ‘The Daily Show’. Noah, a comedian who often found himself in controversies, has a huge fan following globally. Noah’s ...

TLAHORE - PTI nominee for Punjab governorship Ch Sarwar said police reforms are the biggest challenge. Addressing a reception ceremony on Wednesday at a local hotel, the former Punjab governor said the PTI will depoliticise all the institutions. Ch Sarwar thanked Imran Khan and all ...

TLAHORE - Pakistan has rich cultural diversity and our focus is on giving admission to students from Balochistan and Sindh in all disciplines, says Institute of Art and Culture Vice Chancellor Prof Sajida Vendal. Off 4 KM on Raiwind Road the Institute of Art and Culture (IAC) 20-acre campus has been ...